BURGER WEEK 2013!

The Mercury has teamed with some of your favorite bars and restaurants to offer you specially-designed, limited-time, premium burgers for only FIVE DOLLARS.

Here's how it works: We selected our favorite burger spots, offered them meat from Nicky USA, and asked them to come up with a brand-new burger set at a strict $5 price point.

Places like Ate-Oh-Ate, TILT, Slow Bar, and many, many more are hitting it out of the park with this challenge, putting together the kinds of burgers you normally see for $10-$15. I, as the Mercury's Food and Drink editor, will be trying each of the offerings beforehand, and will post photos, origin myths, and whatever stories arise on this long, strange road.